You have a lot of faith in your firewall setup. Why have a firewall rule to stop an anonymous someone ftping into the machine when you can either disable ftp altogether or stop that anonymous someone accessing the system and only allow known trusted users in. Allowing anonymous ftp should be a special case. --- Daniel Veillard <veillard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 02:38:50PM -0700, James Harrison wrote: > > > But i agree with the principe - don't ship with anonymous logon turned > > > on - let the user do this if he/she wants to. > > I agree too. User logins are OK but not anonymous. > > Well I disagree, that would break the existing setups. > FTP is firewalled by default, so unless you explicitely turn off > firewalling (for ftp) then there is no risk. > > Daniel > > -- > Daniel Veillard | Red Hat Desktop team http://redhat.com/ > veillard@xxxxxxxxxx | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ > http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ > > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list > _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Shop for Back-to-School deals on Yahoo! Shopping. http://shopping.yahoo.com/backtoschool
